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There are multiple roles that teachers play nowadays. To fulfill their roles professionally, teachers must exhibit sufficient competency to carry on their duties and responsibilities towards their students, both inside and outside the classroom. One such important role of a teacher include providing correct guidance and counselling to their students.
 

Guidance and counselling are some of the major duties of 21st century modern-day teachers. Today counselling training for teachers is considered to be “the basic requirement of a teacher.” Their training needs include not only knowledge and skills related to guidance and counselling, but also life skills to help them survive in this demanding profession. Mostly these training courses include communication skills, interpersonal skills and ways to deal with varied issues of their students. Today’s teachers need to pursue those courses that are experiential, reflective and interactive and help them in their teaching profession.
 

These are some of the benefits that students get from effective guidance & counselling:
 

1. Students receive proper guidance to deal with their psychological problems which can otherwise impact their studies.
 

2. As a teacher-counsellor, students receive advice on coping with different situations that they face in their school life. They learn to talk politely with their peers and exhibit the correct behavior in certain scenarios.
 

3. Counselling helps to instil enough discipline in the students; with proper guidance, students can achieve their goals, as they get a clear picture of what to do and how to do things in the best possible way.
 

4. Students learn to appreciate other people in their class and respect their peers.
 

6. Teachers are able to guide students with their career and jobs that they want to pursue and make informed choices.
 

7. Trained teachers know how to make students comfortable around them so that they can openly share problems that they cannot do with their parents.
 

In the present generation, students constantly face peer pressure, fear of failing in exam, pressure from parents to do well in exams and so on. Especially in India, children are under extreme stress, trauma and anxiety related to examinations caused due to peer pressure wherein children are forced to perform better. The Indian Education System is always under scrutiny for being excessively competitive with long school hours, heavy school bags, and obsolete curriculum. Being part of this system makes students lose their creativity and innovation, leaving no room for self-learning.
 

Owing to huge competition and expensive education system, parents pressurize their children to perform well by packing them into a room with books with zero time for sports and other outdoor activities. But this is never the correct way of leading a life for a child, rather making the child depressed and unsocial.
 

How can we overcome this?

• Talk to your student to learn about their needs.
• Properly guide and counsel them whenever required.

Young minds are always in need of proper guidance to make them calm yet strong to face any adverse situations. A teacher who knows them inside-out can only correctly guide them to make decisions pertaining to their mental and emotion well-being. A teacher with school counsellor skills can help children to identify their strengths, develop their interests and show them the right path.